The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-07
aiencraI News.

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BEAUTIFUL weather.
RIvER rising slowly.
SEyEs boats leaving today.
QuIrr on the leyec yesterday.
TnE Rene Nacrcndy, Capt. Joplin, leaves
this evening for Walnut bend.
THE Arkansas city, II the Anchor line,
leaves al noon today for Cairo and st. Louis,
TuE Anchor line steamer city Of Cairo is
announced Ia leave here at o'clock this
evening for vicksburg
TnE Eugene Is the regular packet leaving
here tomorrow evening for Arkansas river,
going through 10 Pine Bluff
TnE pilots of the City of Providence re-.
port eight feet of water at Presidents island
bar aud siN and a hall feet at Cat island.
TuE James Lee, Capt Tom Claggett, leaves
this evening for Helena, Friars Point and all
way landings. William Ashford. Will Oar
ragh aud Gus Cummins arc her clerks.
Tm Gnyoso, Capt. w. L. Hall, is the reg.
ular packet leaving this evening for Upton
willie and all way landings ON the upper
coast Is. -. Michel and X. A. Menzies ART
her clerks.
TnE City II Providence, from Vicksburg,
passed Ia st. Louis last night She put oil
here 5l3 bale Of cotton, 10 bags Of seed cot
ton and 2J1p sacks Of cotton seed, aud added
u lot ofiway freight
tfriR tow-bum az Oakland, en- route from
New Orleans 60 ~ Louis. arrived yesterday
afternoon She H. doubletripping over TAT
island bur, and will leave this morning with
siX bargc~ for 81 Louis.
TIiE Henry Lourcy. towing six bargcs
loaded with grain aud package freight,
passed tO New Orleans yesterday afternoon.
She did not double trip, aud went over
Presidents island bar without any trouble.
TIK elegant sidcwhccl steamer Kate
Adams with the veteran Capt. Mark Check
In command, leaves here this evening iof
Helena, Tcrpnc, Concordia, Arkansas City
aud all way landings. Capt. W. &. Banker
| lns charge OF the office and Is assisted by
Lew Pricc aud Harry Best.
TuE Conhoma, Capt John Y. Higgins, ar.
| rived Yesterday from OsCcnla with go bags
of seed cotton aud 3,l1l sacks Of cotton seed.
The Coahuma leaves again this evening fur
Gold Dust, Osccola aud all way landings ON
/ the upper coast Vim. Smithcr Sid Wheeler
aud Charley Lcitwich are her clerks.
Az old steamboat man has been furnish.
/ ing the New Orleans papers with a series III
/ interesting "reminiscences Of early steam.
boating. az the decades between 1870 and
1870, and 1910 eud 1850, and 1850 aud 1850,
/ lac iurni~hci the following The most
noted stcam-b boats during the decade Of 1850
/ to 1910 were the following Baltic, Brandy.
/ wine, Caledonia, Pornhontas, Mediterranean,
| Mohican. Helen McGrgor. Tho time OF the
/ boats from New Orleans was from ten "a
/ twelve days They were all singlc-cngint
| boats with cylinder boilers. They were very
| heavily built something like the old time
/ ships, not over 100 feet Ia length, with thirty
/ feet beam and ten aud a half foot hold
/ They were consequently Of very heavy draft
and not much SPEED. At the begin
ming Of the fOriics new era
/ 81 fast steamboats, commenced. Tie
/ greatest steamboat builder Of that
/ day established shipyard at New Albany
| Ind, and began To- build boats with more re-
/ gard To speed. They were Of more length
aud had very sharp bows and storms. The
power of the engines was also increased
| Among the first he built was tho Gen
| Brown, VIM. French, Dianna aud Edward
| Shipper. The average time Of these steam
crs from New Orleans to louisyill,
was six and onc-half days which WI,
| thought 90 be wonderful. This time wa,
not beaten until 1874. when the Sultana
made the run from New Orleans 90 Louis
| willie In days hours aud - minutes. In
| the same year the Duke of Orleans made hci
| fast time from New Orleans 20 Louisville III
| 3 days hours and . minutes. This time
was not beaten until 1852, when the Belle
/ Key made her time from New orleans "a
Louisville In days hours and minutes.